Chapter 420 - 420: Assassination Attempt

"READY!"

"Then ACT!"

There was no one to notice this moment, and even if they did there was nothing they would understand from that. No one knew what was on Eric's head at that point in time after all.

Disconnecting the call, Eric lied back on the chair he was sitting in as he seemed to be in some deep thinking. At some point, a grin had appeared on his face.

Whoever saw him at that moment like that, would think that he was some kind of villain in some kind of action movie, planning to kill the main character.

The only problem with that thought would be that Eric would never think that he was just an extra character in someone else's life story, he was the main character.

This world, this life, and this era belonged to him and the people he deemed fit. The rest were just extra characters to make his journey colorful.

As he was in deep thoughts, he heard the voice of his beautiful Dragon Empress that had been missing for quite some time now,

"I don't understand why you are doing all this! Wouldn't it be better if you just killed them directly? With the help of your System, I doubt that you would have difficulties in killing them!"

"Wow~! My Dragon Empress, it has been some time since you last talked to me! I had started to think that you might have thought of leaving me, not that I will let you go though!"

"Hmph~! Nonsense, if this lady truly wants to go then what can you do about it?"

"Well, I would just tie you down, and then spank your juicy butt red, until you accepted your mistake and decided against it!"

"Wha… That's quite specific there! Don't tell me that you have those weird fetishes? Don't you have something better to do?"

"Well since you are going to be one of my wives, then I guess that I have to tell you the truth and accept it! I truly have those weird fetishes!

As for the second question, I don't think that it's a loss of time to actually have happy thoughts about my future with my wives!

Don't you think so too?"

"You… You are truly a shameless and lecherous pervert!"

"My, my, don't get so worked up! If you weren't my wifey I would have gotten extremely angry right now, you know?"

Even the Dragon Empress felt some sort of weird pressure as she heard those words. Eric didn't seem to be joking, which truly surprised her a bit.

Still, she managed to quickly recompose herself and then continued,

"Well let's forget about that, now answer my question!"

"Very easy actually, it's just that you don't understand how the society works on this planet and the complications that come with it.

It's true that I could kill them both easily and cleanly, there will not even be someone to doubt me. But what will happen after that?

In order to reach their positions, there must be someone or something behind them. Otherwise, the other three would have already put them in their place.

The two of them are shielding information about Cui Xie and our deal from whoever is behind them, so they actually have a role to play at the moment.

In order to make sure that they are taken care of without endangering the deal, there must be some strong reason why Cui Xie acted against them.

Furthermore, there are two annoying factors that would get created if that happened. First, the other three would start getting scared of me and might decide to actually deal with me, before I did with them.

Second, the public reaction to the sudden assassination of two important figures. While those normal people are ignorant and used most of the time, they still have quite the potential.

If things aren't treated as they should, then most probably instead of benefits, all I would get out of this mess would be problems and more enemies."

"You seem to have truly thought a lot about this!"

"Well, I have to! After all, this is just a step towards my long and happy future with my beautiful wives, looking for the peak!"

"Hmph~! You started once again!"

"Well, you asked for it! I just merely answered!"

…

As Eric was playing and bickering with his Dragon Empress inside his Conscience Sea, Cui Xie was still thinking about his words and their meaning.

It wasn't like this was the first time that he was hearing them, this was the first time he was hearing them from someone who seemed younger than him and was actually stronger than him.

Furthermore, Eric was his Master, and no matter whether he wanted to use his influence or not over Cui Xie's mind and soul, his words were bound to have a strong impact.

As Cui Xie was still in the same position thinking about those words, he suddenly felt a great danger upon himself.

It was like he had been thrown into the cage of numerous starving beasts, that looked at him as the best delicacy in the world.

'Clankkk~!'

For no apparent reason, he felt his entire body and being freeze, as the only thing he could hear was the sound of a window breaking, and then a piercing pain on the left side of his chest.

Lowering his head to look at the spot he felt the pain, he saw a small hole and some really red blood leaking out.

He couldn't believe his eyes, it looked like he was watching some kind of illusion or nightmare, that would end soon, but that actually never ended.

'Clanggg~!'

Before he could make sense of what was going on, he suddenly heard a metal clanging sound in front of him and saw Old Man Ma had appeared out of nowhere.

It was clear that while 1 bullet to the heart might do the job, the assassin would shoot at least another to the head just to make the whole thing certain.

While the old man hadn't been able to react to the first bullet, he sure managed to do so in the second one, and safely protect the life of his Young Master.

He didn't care about his old bones, he only cared about the two siblings, that he was entrusted to serve and protect with his life.

After the second though, there was not a third one, as it was clear that it wasn't going to work. So the assassin had chosen to run away.

The two shots and the sudden window break though garnered the attention of everyone inside the Villa, including Eric, Ren Jia, and Cui La that came running like ghosts.

While Cui La hadn't trained much in martial arts or cultivation, she was still better than average and she had a nice build.

They were inside the room in no time, to find old man Ma protecting Cui Xie from another possible shot, as a small puddle of blood was being formed under him.

"Brother~!"

Cui La immediately threw herself to the ground with tears in her eyes, and pain in her voice, as the person dearest to her, was close to death.

"Brother, can you hear me? Nothing will happen to you! Please don't leave me~!"

Cui Xie was her only blood relative that counted as her family, and also her blood brother. She couldn't afford to lose him.

Seeing Eric enter the room, she immediately threw herself to the ground pleading and crying in pain,

"Please, please save my brother! I will do anything! Please save him!"

Eric felt a bit weird at that moment, but he didn't give himself out, as he picked her up and said,

"You don't have to do this, La'er! Now let me take a look at him!"

With that said he approached the blood-covered body of Cui Xie to take a look and saw the guy looking back at him without much hope.

It was like he knew the condition of his body, and that he knew that he wouldn't last long. The only reason why he had said nothing and was trying to act strong was that he didn't want to worry Cui La.

Taking a look at the wound, and the situation of his body, Eric took a potion bottle out of his space ring, and then said,

"Stop acting like you are going to die and escape my grasp idiot! Did I ever give you permission to die?"

With that said, he didn't wait for an answer or a word from Cui Xie and stuffed the contents of the bottle down the guy's throat.

The moment that the medium Health potion entered Cui Xie's body, his metabolism and regeneration were sped up a little bit, but that was nowhere near enough.

It was just like trying to cover the sun with a sheet full of holes, it was just impossible. But it wasn't like there was no reaction at all, so there was hope.

Since there were holes in the sheet, then the only thing he could do, was close those holes, and add other sheets.

The moment that the first potion bottle was finished, he took out more than 20 of them, and stuffed their contents down Cui Xie's throat, almost at the same time.

In but a moment, Cui Xie had gone from feeling like someone at the death's door to a lab rat used to test a specific medicine.

If he couldn't speak at that moment, he would most probably have cursed at Eric, but too bad that his throat was busy with other things at that moment.

In just a few short minutes, more than 50 bottles of medium quality Health Potions were thrown down Cui Xie's throat…